Founder – Jan Vermeiren – Strategic Systemic Business Mentor

During the coaching process, I act as a Strategic Systemic Business Mentor.

What does this mean?

Strategic refers to the practical and rational. This includes strategy, action plans, technology, and tools. This is also sometimes called the upper current.

Systemic means that I always keep both the whole of the business, the entrepreneur, and their relationships in mind, as well as what is happening in the so-called undercurrent. This includes, among other things, dynamics between people and the impact of parents and the ancestral line.

I also take the inner current into account. This concerns limiting and supportive beliefs, patterns, and loyalties that can make running a business more effortless — or hold you back.

I developed the methods I use over time. Some of them can be found in my books (see below).

In addition, there are a few frameworks I have created. Here are some of them:

  • Client Attraction Roadmap: to attract your ideal client
  • High Performance Team Pathway: to build a smoothly functioning team
  • Soul Business Toolkit: to transform limiting beliefs, patterns, loyalties, and dynamics into supportive ones

These methods, frameworks, and tools are used fully or partially during a program, depending on what emerge as the most important levers from the Flow Scans. This way, every coaching trajectory is unique.

Flow Scans are a tool to achieve results much faster than a classic approach. Feel free to request a trial session to experience how they work.

My Successes and Failures

Since I regularly get the question what my credentials are, I gladly share my successes and failures.

I know what it takes to …

  • build something from scratch out of a passion (my previous company Networking Coach which nobody believed in at first which I started after a career in the software industry, see below)
  • be very successful (international best sellers “Let’s Connect!” and “How to REALLY use LinkedIn” and the first training partner of LinkedIn worldwide)
  • almost go bankrupt (with the Generous Networkers project),
  • doubt myself and have a burn-out
  • getting back on my feet (with the successful sale of Networking Coach)
  • reflect about what happened and share the insights (in the book “Life is a Game!”)
  • and finally from a renewed connection with my passions bring something new to the world (Soul Business and True Freedom).

In other words I know what it is to (often alone) bring something to the world, with ups and downs. If we work together, you can ask me any question. I will share both my successes and failures. Because that is information you often don’t have access to.

Networking Coach

I started this company from scratch. Together with my team I worked for more than 500 organizations world wide including 3M, Adecco, Agoria, Alcatel, Bosch, Bridgestone, Deloitte, DHL, ING, IBM, KBC, MCI, MKB Nederland, Movares, Nike, Philips, Rabobank, SAP, Schiphol Group, SD Worx, Siemens, Telenet, Unizo and VOKA.

During this time I wrote several books, including two international best sellers: Let’s Connect! and How to REALLY Use LinkedIn and I was a guest lecturer in the international MBA programs of  Vlerick Business School (Belgium) and Rotterdam School of Management (Netherlands).

I have been interviewed over 100 times by national and international media: television (de Zevende Dag, Lichtpunt), radio (Radio 1, Studio Brussel, Tros) and other media like Forbes, AD, Vacature, Sales Magazine, de Tijd, Jobat, het Parool and het Ingenieursblad.

Last but not least: Networking Coach was the first official LinkedIn training partner in the world.

I don’t share this to brag, but to show that I know what it is to build a company (in this case with consulting, training, coaching, publishing and speaking activities) with lots of ups and downs – yes, lots of trial and error.

And that it takes more than just a plan, but also lots of self discovery and personal growth.

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